Photo by Brian Adams Marian Call is an Alaskan chanteuse who found an audience after winning a Firefly-relatedsong contest in 2007. She has run her music career as an independentgrassroots effort ever since. She connects with her fans constantly anddirectly, both through social media and crowdfunding, and sleeping ontheir floors during tours… Continue reading Call of the Wild with Marian Call (Episode 47)
Month: October 2013
Kickstarter Founders Change Roles
Kickstarter was created in the mind of Perry Chen, who brought Charles Adler into it, and then they grabbed Yancey Strickler along the way. It took years from Chen’s first notion to put all the pieces together to launch in 2009. They’re going to pass a billion dollars collected on behalf of projects soon, just… Continue reading Kickstarter Founders Change Roles
Slow Fast Slow from Studio Neat
Our friends at Studio Neat have just released their latest thing: an app for shooting in slow-motion at 60 frames per second (fps) on an iPhone 5/5c or fifth-generation iPod touch and 120 fps on the iPhone 5s. While SloMo at 120 fps is a mode on the iPhone 5s, it doesn’t offer much control… Continue reading Slow Fast Slow from Studio Neat
Free, Live Taping in New York, November 6th
Come to DUMBO, the up-and-coming area of Brooklyn, for a live taping on November 6th that’s part of the Nearly Impossible conference. Tickets are free and you don’t need to be a conference attendee. (But the conference is pretty cool and very “ND” like: it’s teaching people how to make ideas into products.) It’s be… Continue reading Free, Live Taping in New York, November 6th
Live Readings from the Magazine
The Magazine was part of Lit Crawl 2013 in Seattle, andwriters Nancy Gohring and Matthew Amster-Burton, along with yours truly, read some of their work aloud to a live audience. Nancy read “Laid Out,” I intoned “The Sound of Silence,” and Matthew performed from his book, “Pretty Good Number One.”
99% Indivisible with Roman Mars (Episode 46)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 41 MB, 86 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Roman Mars is a public-radio producer. But the definition of what public radio is has become malleable, especially with his show, 99% Invisible,which has enormously… Continue reading 99% Indivisible with Roman Mars (Episode 46)
Support the Show Directly: Patreon + Mugs
View fullsize You can get this mug at Zazzle. We put a fair amount of time into each episode of The New Disruptors, and as listeners of the show well understand, for independent creators time and money have an absolutely direct relationship. Between our audio engineer and myself, we put about 8 to 10 hours… Continue reading Support the Show Directly: Patreon + Mugs
Boing Boing Live Interview Posted
I interviewed the lovely people and friends that edit Boing Boing — Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin — as part of the XOXO festival in September. The beautifully edited video of the event is now available free and in full!
I Want to Teach the World Wide Web to Sing with Jon Mitchell (Episode 45)
Photo by Tina McConnell. Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 29 MB, 60 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jon Mitchell was a mild-mannered reporter at a major metro-webbian publication, Read Write. He left to pursue new ideas about… Continue reading I Want to Teach the World Wide Web to Sing with Jon Mitchell (Episode 45)
Code Monkey Comixology Crazy
The first installment in the Code Monkey Saves World comic-book series based on Jonathan Coulton’s songs and written by Greg Pak is available to the public today via ComiXology. I talked to Jonathan and Greg in May about their blockbuster Kickstarter, and as a backer, I had the first issue in my hot little hands… Continue reading Code Monkey Comixology Crazy